King Parrot - Dead Set - review
King Parrot - Dead Set - review
Tracklist
01. Anthem Of The Advance Sinner02. Need No Savior
03. Hell Comes Your Way
04. Like A Rat
05. Tomorrow Turns To Blood
06. Home Is Where The Gutter Is
07. Sick In The Head
08. Punisher
09. Reject
10. Dead Set
A review by
Doc G. May 20, 2015
On one hand, despite unrelated, Dead Set does have that thrashy-crossover-punk vibe akin to Municipal Waste, and will surely appeal to the same demographic. On the other hand, this album sets a new high bar for this style of music, destroying anything Municipal Waste have done in...wow, probably going on eight years now. Think Municipal Waste3. Seriously, even the vocals sound like a Cam Pipes-Tony Foresta hybrid, with some obligatory death grunts tossed in for good measure. King Parrot is a band that satisfies all crossover cravings, then takes it ten steps further.
Enough of the MW comparisons, though. Dead Set really does stand nicely on its own, all comparisons aside. A lot of bands, especially of this variety, just pump out aimless riffs for the sake of being stupidly vicious at top-speed. In fact, more times than not, this is the case, making any type of replay value non-existent. Defying the aggression vs catchiness paradox is King Parrot's greatest strength. Sometimes you want machine gun riffing, other times you need something with a little more grip to it. King Parrot does both.
There's not a whole lot of hidden secrets with Dead Set, no track stands as an anomaly. Grab any song from here, give it a quick spin and you'll know pretty quickly if King Parrot is your thing.
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Can't really hear where the thrash comparisons are coming from for this one, but anyway, KP are a great band and everyone should check 'em out. More a mix of death and grind if you ask me, certainly on their last album anyway (I've only had a quick listen to this new one as yet)...
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Posts: 9726 Written by midland_don on 20.05.2015 at 16:42 In retrospect, I shouldn't have omitted mentioning the grind aspect. However, I haven't listened to their first album, but I do get a heavy crossover thrash vibe from this.
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All I know this band has funny band name ... maybe I will try to listen it and (maybe even misspell band name King Carrot)
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Posts: 1465 Written by Bad English on 21.05.2015 at 12:16 Here's the true Australian King Parrot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_king_parrot
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Only gave it a complete listen twice so far. Pretty good, I'm still absolutely in love with Bite Your Head off though. That had more catchy riffs than this which I liked a bit more. This is a good album though, maybe it'll grow more on me.
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Posts: 1465 Written by deadone on 16.07.2015 at 05:44 Big call. Will have to check this out. Others have recommended it to me as well. In relation to your point 2. above, made me wonder about contenders for best extreme metal albums from Australian bands. I haven't followed the Australian scene much since the days when Alchemist and Armoured Angel used to regularly gig in Canberra, so I bet there is a lot I have missed.
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Good music. It's like MW goes grindcore. Vibes are fun and enjoyable. You can find lot of headbangers going crazy over this disc when KP performs live. Absolute fun record it is.
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